Quotes About Language

The right to free speech does not give you the liberty to talk slander

Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development?

Devin swears like a sailor with Tourette's?

The English word sin is derived from the German term Sünde, which carries the connotation of sundering or dividing.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

The meter itself demands a special vocabulary, for many combinations of long and short syllables that are common in the spoken language cannot be admitted to the line Ã¢â'¬â€any word with three consecutive short syllables, for example, any word with one short syllable between two longs. This difficulty was met by choosing freely among the many variations of pronunciation and prosody afforded by Greek dialectal differences; the epic language is a mixture of dialects." - Bernard Knox

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

there's nothing like Latin for slapping the fuck out of people who think they're better than you. I've used it several times to good effect.

Erudite, for a woman who confuses "you're" and "your" and goes in for random capitalisation.' 'We can't all be literary geniuses,' said Robin reproachfully. 'Thank Christ for that, from all I'm hearing about them.

Being sworn at by random people was the price you paid for living in London,

Na ja, bei ihm heißt Chard 'Phallus Impudicus', und ..." [...] "Er heißt 'unzüchtiger Pimmel'?

there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten...

And on the menu, it says "bill of fare". They won't use "menu", you see, because it was French.

Very convenient, the way people can only speak in crossword clues from the afterlife.